Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Rereading, we find a new book.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.
I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
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